For all you region free folks out there Australia’s Shock Entertainment have some children’s themed horror from the 70’s coming to DVD on July 6th. I’m aware of The Ghost Busters but I’ve never actually seen it. As far as Groovie Goolies goes, I’m never even heard of it, at least not that I can recall. It certainly looks like a cartoon I would have loved as kid. In fact if the opening theme song (see below) is any indication, Groovie Goolies looks like something I’d like now.
GROOVIE GOOLIES – FRIGHTFULLY FUNNY!
Sabrina, the Teenage witch introduces us to another set of equally bewitching characters. Groovie Goolies features the wild and humorous exploits of the shuddery but lovable denizens of horrible hall. Drac, Frankie, Wolfe and Orville – a plant that eats just about anything – live together with a whole host of other delightfully dastardly characters who live within these hallowed Halls.
Come if you dare to the ghostly bowels – what will appear is somewhat unknown, but what is guaranteed is an endless parade of colourful spirits and ghostly visions in this fun series.
• GROOVIE GOOLIES is an American animated television show that had its original run on network television between 1970 and 1971.
• Produced by Filmation, GROOVIE GOOLIES was a spinoff of The Sabrina the Teenage Witch Show (itself a spinoff of The Archie Show).
• The Goolies were a group of hip monsters residing at Horrible Hall (a haunted boarding house for monsters). Many of the Goolies were (in look and sound) pop-culture echoes of the Universal classic horror-film monsters: Dracula, The Wolfman & Frankenstein.SPOOKS, MONSTERS AND GHOULS GOT YOU DOWN? THE GHOST BUSTERS WILL SAVE THE DAY!
When trouble calls The Ghost Busters answer! From their run-down office Spencer Tracy and Kong take on assignments no mere mortal could face. Good thing that Spencer and Kong have the super-smart gorilla Tracy on their team! In the super-secret missions assigned to them by the mysterious ‘Zero’ the trio of bumbling detectives confront phantoms vampires werewolves Frankenstein’s monster mobsters Vikings magicians and even a devilish dummy! Larry Storch
Forrest Tucker and Bob Burns star.
• THE GHOST BUSTERS was a live-action children’s sit-com that ran in 1975, about a team of bumbling detectives who would investigate ghostly occurrences.
• The show reunited Forrest Tucker And Larry Storch in roles similar to their characters in F Troop.
• In 1986, after the success of the 1984 Ivan Reitman film, the show was revived in animated format with Kong and Spencer’s sons, Jake and Eddie Jr., inheriting their fathers’ business in Ghostbusters.